After the last few episodes were at least wild enough to be interesting, I thought Riverdale might’ve pushed through to a new level of so-bad-it’s-good. But I’m realizing that while this show can do effective set pieces, which works for riot stuff and the Black Hood reveal, the character moments are so half-assed it’s…

Well put. The mob stuff is such a retcon, it barely makes sense. (Although admittedly it is kind of fun to watch.) But the Jughead gang plot has been disastrous. Even aside from his actions being hard to sympathize with, like cutting a chunk out of a woman’s arm, there’s hardly any continuity in characterization to…

Honestly, the depiction of the Serpents keeps getting weirder and weirder to me. Last season when it was set up, it seemed like Jughead was turning to the dark side or something, but based on Betty’s “I want to be part of your world” strip tease, it seems all the characters have just accepted and are cool with him…

Travis McElroy (of Til Death to us Blart) used to produce Lisa Hanawalt’s podcast, so it would weirder if it weren’t a reference